W. S. GILBERT: By Edith A. Browne. Stars of the Stage Series. London:
John Lane, 1907.
8vo: pp. xii+96+15 plates, one of them showing Gilbert in a kilt
as a (3rd) Gordon Highlander (1868-78): gives a list of
Gilbert's plays. The operas are dealt with by themselves (pp.
55-84). There is a photograph of H. A. Lytton in "Patience"
(facing p. 58).
SIR WILLIAM S. GILBERT: A study in modern satire: a handbook on Gilbert
and the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. By Isaac Goldberg, M.A., Ph.D.
(Harvard.) Boston: Stratford Publishing Co., 1913.
8vo. pp. 156. The operas are discussed pp. 83-146. "The
character of Pooh-Bah is perhaps the greatest single creation of
Gilbert's."
RECOLLECTIONS OF GILBERT. By G. W. Smalley. _McClure's Magazine_
(January 1903), xx, 302-304.
REAL CONVERSATION WITH GILBERT. By William Archer. _Critic_, New York
(September 1901), xxxix, 240-240.
Mr. Archer's article on Gilbert as a dramatist in the _St.
James's Magazine_, London, in 1881 (xlix, 287), was one of the
first critical appreciations of Gilbert on a big scale.
GILBERT'S HUMOUR. By Max Beerbohm. _Saturday Review_, xcvii, 619; xcix,
696.
THE GENIUS OF GILBERT. _Blackwood's Magazine_ (July 1911), cxcix,
121-128.
THE ENGLISH ARISTOPHANES. By Walter Sichel. _Fortnightly Review_
(October 1911), xciv, 681-704.
THE LIBRETTOS OF W. S. GILBERT. By G. H. Powell. _Temple Bar_, cxxv, 36.
MR. GILBERT AS A LIBRETTIST. By J. M. Bulloch. _Evening Gazette_,
Aberdeen (June 16, 17, 1890).
This was originally an address delivered to the Aberdeen
University Literary Society, November 16, 1888. J. M. Bulloch
also dealt with "The Pretty Wit of Mr. Gilbert" in the _Sketch_,
June 12, 1898; "Mr. Gilbert's Majority as a Savoyard," in the
_Sketch_, Sept. 9, 1898; and "The work of W. S. Gilbert,"
illustrated in the _Bookbuyer_, New York, January, 1899.
GILBERT'S PROFITS FROM LIBRETTO. By G. Middleton. _Bookman_, New York
(October, 1908), xxviii, 116-123.
SIR W. S. GILBERT. Leading article and biography in _The Times_, May 30,
1911, pp. 11-12.
PORTRAITS. Ten reproductions are inventoried in the _A.L.A. Portrait
Index_ (Washington, 1908: p. 378) including those by Rudolf Lehman and
"Spy" in _Vanity Fair_ (1881: xiii., plate 13.).